Julia Muzychenko
soprano
© Daniil Rabovsky
Julia Muzychenko returns to Oper Frankfurt to repeat her portrayal (a role she sang for the first time when she made her house debut in 2021/22) of Oksana in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Night before Christmas. She recently made her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, singing Gilda in Rigoletto, and went on a concert tour of Korea. Later this season she returns to the Opéra National de Montpellier for Musetta (La Bohéme) and takes part in concerts with the Belgian National Orchestra in Brussels. Recent engagements have included the Swan Princess (The Story of Tsar Saltan) at the Opéra National du Rhin, Violetta (La traviata) at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Marmande Festival and Norina (Don Pasquale) at Teatro Rovereto. She also sang Gilda and Nanetta (Falstaff) at the Opéra National de Montpellier and the title role in Lakmé at the Festival Les Nuits Lyriques de Marmande. Under the auspices of the Clermont Ferrand international opera competition she won the role prize for Amina (La Sonnambula), which she then sang at opera houses including those in Avignon, Metz and Reims. She used to be a member of the Semperoper in Dresden’s Youth Ensemble, where roles included Musetta, Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and the Sandmam / Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel). She also took part in the 2019 Advent concert in the Frauenkirche in Dresden (broadcast live on ZDF) and 2020 Semper Opera Ball. She won 3rd prize at this year’s Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and 2nd prize at the Montserrat Caballé competition in Barcelona. She studied singing in her home town of St. Petersburg and made her debut at the Mariinski in 2015, singing the title role of Tarnopolski’s Cinderella.